User fees collection and use remains highly complex in Mozambique
An analysis carried out by the Ministry of Health with 2017 data confirms that user fees are collected at public health units with a high administrative complexity: Funds are registered as revenue, so they have to be declared at a Provincial Tax Office, then to the...
ILO: Only 6% of Mozambique’s economically active population pays social security contributions
Social protection schemes in Mozambique increase covered population over time. As social protection platform advances, it can be a catalyst to reach comprehensive social health protection in Mozambique, as contribution schemes could be shared in the future. Only 6% of...
What get’s measured get’s done: Malawi releases National Health Indicators Handbook for Monitoring Health Sector Performance
As part of the 2017-2022 Health Sector Strategic Plan II (HSSP II) towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Malawi released an updated set of National Health Indicators and accompanying targets. hese indicators support monitoring for the Ministry of Health and...
Status Quo: Decentralization of public health service provision
The Decentralization programme has been going on in Malawi for 20 years now. Indeed a lot has happened considering that the first phase in the late 1990s was for laying the ground works relating to addressing capacity gaps and this was followed by the second phase...
Findings Resource Mapping FY 2017/2018: Malawi’s health financing mainly comes from external sources and is highly fragmented
Malawi’s health sector programs are financed and implemented by hundreds of organizations. In the past, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) has found it challenging to track and coordinate the activities of all partners. To address this challenge, and in the...
Follow-up event in Cote d’Ivoire postponed
The follow-up event in Cote d'Ivoire (CIV) scheduled for beginning of October has been postponed to accomodate political developments in the country. A new date for end of 2018/beginnning of 2019 will be found. CIV is there first case in which L4UHC closely...
Workshop on Public Social Health Insurance Design for Mozambique
An Inter-Ministerial Workshop was held in Maputo from 12th to 14th September, 2018, with the objective of aligning perspectives and start designing options for a possible Public Social Health Insurance. Over 30 participants from different Ministries included in the...
Khmer Times: NSSF discusses coverage of informal workers
Khmer Times, 13 September 2018: " The National Social Security Fund on Tuesday held a meeting to discuss social security coverage for informal workers who are often on short-term contracts or are paid by the day with no contract at all, such as construction workers. "...
4th Global Health Expenditure Tracking meeting, Geneva 17-19 Sept.2018
Event Time : 17 Sep 2018 6:30 am to 19 Sep 2018 4:00 pmTimezone: UTC+02:00Event is Conference : No
The Phnom Penh Post: NSSF signs MoU to gain experience from the Philippines
The Phnom Penh post, 11 September 2018: " The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday with The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to transfer knowhow and foster the growth of NSSF officers. " Read...
The Phnom Penh Post: “NSSF covers over 8k patients”
The Phnom Penh Post, 7 September 2018: "Some 8,727 patients received medical treatment under The National Social Security Fund’s (NSSF) healthcare programme introduced for civil servants this year. In the first six months, the NSSF spent $14 million to provide a range...
Document sharing: analysis of the RAMU for the implementation of the AM component of ARCH in Benin
Benin was in danger of throwing out the baby with the bathwater, i.e. the UHIP experiment with its mixed results, to embark on the highly ambitious ARCH project. It is to be hoped that this risk will be minimized by the production of this document, which makes an...
Document patrage: proceedings of SGTT RAMU n°4
Where the SGTT RAMU makes a critical analysis of the draft law
Mozambique considering regulation of user fees in hospitals and introduction of National Health Insurance
The Mozambique government is considering the introduction of Social Health Insurance and the regulation of fees charged by hospital units as part of the sector’s financing strategy, a government source announced. The ideas were presented on Wednesday by Daniel Simone...
Establishing a Routine Health Services Costing System
Awareness of the costs of health care services is a prerequisite to deliver them effectively and efficiently in the context of scarcely available financial resources, and aids managers to optimally deliver health care. For social health protection schemes knowledge of...